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Jonathan Harounoff

Jonathan Harounoff

Jonathan Harounoff is a British journalist covering the Middle East, who has been serving as Israel’s International Spokesperson to the UN since September 2024.
Sadiq Khan in Trafalgar Square. Photo: X/ SadiqKhan
July 25, 2026, 9:54 pm
London’s mayor has crossed a far more dangerous line than Mamdani
The New York mayor's remarks about the Israeli prime minister were politically provocative but legally inconsequential, whereas Sadiq Khan's statements matter
By Jonathan Harounoff
US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, Photo taken from X
June 22, 2026, 10:52 am
US ambassador to Israel dismisses reports of rift between the two countries
Mike Huckabee: 'America and Israel will never get a divorce, because neither side can afford the alimony'
By Jonathan Harounoff
Mounted police at the annual event (Credit: Twitter/@NYPDPC)
June 1, 2026, 9:23 am
New York celebrates annual Israel parade – without city’s Mayor
Tens of thousands attended the annual march down Fifth avenue, amid the largest security operation in the event’s history
By Jonathan Harounoff
Jonathan Harounoff with Raheleh Amiri, who was shot in the eye by Iranian regime forces during the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests
March 10, 2026, 12:22 pm
For almost 50 years, the women of Iran have fought a regime intent on silencing them
While much of the world focuses on the Islamic Republic’s dangerous foreign policy, we must not lose sight of the terror it inflicts at home.
By Jonathan Harounoff
A mural of the Iranian regime's supreme leaders: Ayatollah Khomeini (1979-89) and Ayatollah Khamenei (1989-present). Credit: Flickr/David Stanley
January 13, 2026, 1:23 am
The Iranian regime is gambling on the wider world looking away
Iran’s future will be shaped by whether its people are supported and remembered, or abandoned
By Jonathan Harounoff
Jonathan Harounoff speaks at the Cambridge Union
December 2, 2025, 6:12 pm
I told Cambridge Union the truth about Palestine many did not want to hear
Jonathan Harounoff argued against a Cambridge Union motion last week that 'This House Believes that the international community has failed/betrayed Palestine'. Here is his speech
By Jonathan Harounoff
United Nations Headquarters
September 22, 2025, 9:22 am
OPINION: The United Nations of capitulation
Recognising a Palestinian state at this juncture sets the precedent that violence and terror are rewarded at the world’s highest stage
By Jonathan Harounoff
Iranian Embassy in Canberra, Australia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
August 27, 2025, 3:43 pm
OPINION: The Islamic Republic’s terror has reached a city near you
Expulsion of Iran’s ambassador follows ASIO findings tying Revolutionary Guard to antisemitic arson attacks in Sydney and Melbourne
By Jonathan Harounoff
A woman holds a poster of Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei in front of Qiam, missile displayed in a missile capabilities exhibition by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a day prior to second anniversary of Iran's missile strike on U.S. bases in Iraq in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (Credit Image: © Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press via ZUMA Press Wire) Credit: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Live News
June 16, 2025, 6:12 pm
OPINION: Why Israel struck first – and what the world refused to see
Jonathan Harounoff says Israel’s pre-emptive strike stopped a genocidal regime the world chose to ignore for decades
By Jonathan Harounoff
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim (Credit: Embassy of Israel to the USA)
May 22, 2025, 11:16 pm
OPINION: The murder of this young couple is what globalising the intifada means
We will not stop fighting antisemitism in all its insidious manifestations, writes Jonathan Harounoff
By Jonathan Harounoff
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
March 12, 2025, 7:34 pm
OPINION: The US green card is a privilege, not an inalienable right
Many of those who have passionately defended Khalil have been so conspicuously silent on the 59 hostages, writes Jonathan Harounoff
By Jonathan Harounoff
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